David Murphy wrote:
> Quoting <38C4F695.F5A55531 at via-net-works.ie>
> by Thomas Bridge <thomas.bridge at via-net-works.ie>:
> > You don't want to run named out of swap space. There's a full
> > discussion of this in DNS + BIND. Basically, its too slow and
> > generally a Very Bad Thing.
> That, I knew, and didn't see as relevant to the discussion at hand. I
> therefore presumed you were thinking of something I hadn't...
Lets put it this way - where you are providing swap space to a
dedicated name server, you quite simply shouldn't be finding out what
happens when the machine has out of memory issues.
T.
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